| If your company has plans to expand buy-side ownership overseas, it may be wise to hold on to that traditional, artfully-rendered annual report; despite what the US buy-side has been telling you. Last month we telephoned nearly 250 buy-side investment professionals in the US, Europe and developing Asia and found a huge dichotomy of opinion regarding whether a company’s annual financial filings eliminate the need for a high-gloss annual report. The answer in the US (with its abundance of readily available SEC data) is a rather emphatic “yes” while elsewhere it is “not so fast.” Most US investors (70%, the blue portions of the top chart) report that annual financial filings eliminate most if not all the need for a high-gloss annual. Conversely, literally two-thirds of the non-US investors (64%, the red portions of the bottom chart) say that annual filings eliminate only some and certainly not all the need for traditional annual reports.   |
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Thursday 1 March 2012
An International Take on Annual Report Value
An International Take on Annual Report Value
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